Dead Letters
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Description
Maurice Baring wrote Dead Letters, issued in Boston and New York by Houghton Mifflin Company in nineteen ten. The letters first ran in the Morning Post. Baring dedicated the book to Lord Lucas. These letters are in no wise meant to be either historical documents or historical studies, he warns his friend. They are the fruits of imagination rather than of research, he says.
The word research is not even remotely applicable here, he admits. His sources are the hazy memories of a distant education, a few hurried references to Smith Classical Dictionary, and a map of Rome. If you tell me my account of the Carthaginian fleet is full of inaccuracies, I shall answer that I do not care, he declares. Yet a few grains of historical truth remain, he claims. Readers get invented letters from the dead.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 265 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |